.gitignore

Call it The GCDLADB if you like.

Archiving What Git Ignores  3 min read   Feb 26, 2020   |  Updated: Feb 27, 2020 15:14
I love git and GitHub, and I can certainly appreciate the usefullness of .gitignore, but there are times when I’d really like to move an ENTIRE project to a new home. I have in my head a process that might play out like this… Fetch a list of all the files and directories that .gitignore is ignoring. Pass that list to a tar or gzip command (maybe two of them) with encryption to create a secure, compressed archive. Commit the archive to the project repo in GitHub, or keep it in a safe place for restoration in the future. ...